A fully-vaccinated man, who came from Italy to Chandigarh in November was found infected with the Omicron variant of COVID-19. The 20-year-old male, who came to visit his relatives in the city, has however tested negative for COVID-19 on Sunday. He was found COVID positive on December 1 following which his sample was sent for genome sequencing to New Delhi. A spokesman of Chandigarh Administration said that the male resident who was reported positive for Omicron variant has now been tested as COVID negative on Sunday. He has become the first Omicron case in the city. The traveller has been asymptomatic throughout. He is fully vaccinated with Pfizer vaccine which he took at Italy. He has been kept in a separate isolation since 11 days, the spokesman said. He informed that the traveller’s seven family contacts who had been quarantined and were negative earlier were retested for COVID 19.